You know I hate to see you crying
But when you open up to me
I take you in my arms
Wish you the top
Top top top top of the morning

No I don’t care bout cash
Nor Career your Losses
Or your arrears
I’ll take you in my arms
Wish you the top
Top top top
Of the morning

I won’t let this city destroy
My love
Wont let no mistake take the
Roof from off our heads
No I wont let this city destroy us
Won’t let this city destroy our love

Come on talk to me
Let me shed some light through this
Dark help you see how darling
You have left your mark

On my life and the beautiful
World around
Want to see you Top
Top Top Top
Of the morning

I was lost until that night
We kissed given up
On life so darling
Know this you’re
Worth more then
How this city let you
Down, want to see you
Top Top Top
Top of the morning

Its not about the debts you made
The car we never had
The house we never owned
Darling don’t look so sad
It’s about that day we kissed
Up by Niagara falls its about
The keys the keys to my
Heart you hold

Oh I love this house I love this house
Gives me the greatest peace I’ve
Ever known oh I love to hear those conkers fall
Smash on morning Southwark stone

Oh I love that here you live with me
Gives me the greatest peace I’ve ever known
Cos I’ve been too long a lonely man
Yes I’ve been too long a rolling stone

So let seasons Turn
Grow paradise gardens
End to my migration
The native has returned

Oh I love the curling of your hair
Gives me the greatest peace
I’ve ever known

I see Dylan Thomas in your face
Recite butler yeats there
In your grace

So let seasons Turn
Grow paradise gardens
End to my Migration
The native has returned

And if I had to die today
Scatter my ashes on this place
And I’ll live on in your grieving heart
But until that day that we depart

This is the greatest peace I’ve ever known
Only your love makes house a home

She kisses him on Bermondsey Street
Rises high on the balls of her feet
Declares this the greatest love
Of the century

He fumbles for a wedding ring
She’s no clone from vogue magazines
She is complex in all her complexion
Love is here to heal

And im so proud of you
Now you must too
Take pride in what
This love you do

He kisses him on Bermondsey Street
Standing brave on the balls of his feet
Declares this the greatest love
of the century

He fumbles for a wedding ring
He’s no clone from colt magazines
He is complex in all his complexion
Love is here to heal

And im so proud of you
Now you must too
Take pride in what
This love you do

Now you know
Love knows no boundaries
Sees beyond sexuality
And holds the sun
In the palm of its hand
Laughs down on the
Cynical man
Here in what I see
In two kisses sweet
On bermondsey street

Summer in san francisco
Kissing chlorine in the swimming pool
Out of fuel at the phoenix motel
I slept alone again that night
In sweet dreams of mother Ireland
and Father Albion

Sweet dream that you
Come near and I see my
Future Clear and the threshold appears
And I am carrying you over
Carrying you over

Into the Hallway of our
New home
Chaos outside
But i’ve got Your Back
We’ve got our own
Paradise
Now we are private worlds away from
Public eyes I say I love you
More than my life
Truth completely

You come near I see my
Future clear and the
Threshold appears
And I am carrying you over
Carrying me over into
The best days
Of the rest of our lives

Coat of black
Coat of black
Weary waiting
Weary waiting

I turn out the light
we kiss good night
been weary waiting
weary waiting
to come closer
closer to where
we belong

Outside the city
Children brandish
Sharp their knives
Sharpen knives
And come closer
Closer to where
We Belong
Now if I be weak
Wont you be strong
When the night is long?

Trust
Over years you’ll wake
To find this man
Who’s loved ya’
Your whole life
So come closer
Closer to where
We belong

Just close your eyes
Let those foxes fight
The children of this
City sharp their knives
Come closer closer
To where we belong

And If you be weak
Then I’ll be strong
When the night is long
If I be weak
Comreedhoo
(coat of black)
Comreedhoo
When the night is long

And i showed you my ugly
heart yet you did not surrender
Loving me back to life
through my self destruction
December all paranoias
To trust I turn, turned
My bodies functions
I remembered
So till the going down
Of our suns Will you
Will you be my conqueror?

From the east to the south
I tongue the roof of my mouth
To new days of doubt
Without you
First gear
I face the trouble ahead
Final word has been said
Long distance spread
Between us
I tell myself
To hold on
Won’t be long
Til I grow up
Through this struggle
Time to
Wake up
Find my muscle
Happy without you

You’ve not called for weeks
And six days without sleep
Means I am slave to my early grave
If I do not be brave
Behave
Save myself
Out of the mess
I have created of myself
Yet again
Yet again I say hold on
Won’t be long
Til I grow up
Through this struggle
Time to wake up
Find my muscle
Happy without you

Beat go on
Heart be strong
Stay whole
Unbroken
As we divide
Our love
Goodbye
Thanks for
The time
Time of my life

I’ll be happy without you
Thanks of the time of my life
So happy without you

I see the steeple and
Trace to the Spire
And the sun set
Deep in regret
Phoenix in final fire
And the time stops
Rush hour traffic
Slows and my heart
Starts beating this
Dark through old
Flesh and cold Bone
And I long to be carried
On just once to be lifted
Strong out of the loneliness
And the emptiness
Of the Days

I had your love once
Seized my body whole
And in our first dance
I thought by chance
God had matched my soul
But time bought its travelling
its distance and solitude
and in that travelling
My self damaging
I took my love
Far Far from you
But now don’t you
Long to be carried on
Just once I could lift you strong
Out of the loneliness
And the emptiness
Of the days

Passing days

Tell me
Have we gone too far
Or did we get too close?
You’ve no father
I’ve no son
But when we come ghost
I promise I will meet you
I will meet you

At the end of
The Days

Before you I was living
In my silver fish kitchen
Fruit fly clouds breathing
No hope no religion
A nightmare on
Hazlitt Road

I was too young
Too weak from the road
Too proud for help
Too scared to grow
Out of my depth
And out of control
I was so lonely then
Living in Slow Motion
Breathless corrosion
Waiting for the kiss of life
CIty rumours spreading
Deep water wolf treading
Yes
I was too young
Too weak from the road
Too proud for help
Too scared to grow
Out of my depth
And out of control

Then strangers meet in
Slow Motion
Breathless
Breathless
That night you gave me
The kiss of life
That night you saved me with
The kiss of life

Wake me out of that
Deep sleep
Darling
Waked me out that
Deep sleep
Darling

Alone again in Paris
Travel drained
I write to you
You’ve been on my mind
Cold days, long nights

A rooftop in Berlin
I call confess
The state I’m in
These cities
This view
I see nothing
Without you

And I can do this alone
But we can do this so much better
Together

And I can make it alone
But we can make it so much better
Together

London Bridge
The Rain
At last back in these arms again
I’m sorry I hurt you
I hurt me too
Forgive my jealousy
That’s not the man
I long to be
By your side
My whole life
True love knows
No sacrifice

I can do this alone
But we can do this so much better
Together

I can make it alone
But we can make it so much
Better together

I put my arms around your waist
Pull you closer in embrace
I say divided we fall but stronger
We stand together

Down in the foundry
They forge for us the changing bell
Turn your back against the wind
Spit down the wishing well
With nothing left to waste
But opportunity
To be the lovers
We have longed to be
Now things are looking up for you
Looking up for me
Looking up for us
Finally

We cross the borderline
To wake the sleep of colour
Under wind turbine
Look at the rusting of that old machinery!
Rusting away apart to history

Now things are looking up for you
Looking up for me
Looking up for us
Finally

What brings the joy
Will take the tears
You’ve been holding back
For all the years
That you were down
And out of luck
Now side by side
We’re looking up

Time to ring that
Changing Bell